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“There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted on a space flight, or the satellites that are carried up, the work that's to be done, is important and expensive work, and you are up there for a week or two on a Space Shuttle flight. The country has invested a lot of money in you and your training, and the Space Shuttle and everything that's in it, and you have to do things correctly. You can't make a mistake during that week or two that you're in space.”

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Sally Ride, an American physicist, was born on May 26, 1951, and passed away on July 23, 2012. She is renowned for being the first American woman to travel to space, and her contributions to the field of space exploration are significant. more

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